“These courses involve physically making the drinks yourself, with the real alcoholic ingredients, not a simulated mock-up! Your sense of taste and smell are vital to making great Mixed Drinks (Cocktails)."
“Chefs learn to cook with real food, not simulated. Why would you learn to bartend any other way?”
"…and thoroughly amalgamating all the compounds, so that the taste of neither the bitter, the sweet, the spirit, nor the element, shall be perceptible one over the other, is the grand secret…"
Jeremiah P Thomas
Gary Beadle
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory…
Albert Einstein
“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Safety is the biggest illusion sold by people who never lived it in the first place. You need to take risks and get out of your shell to live an extraordinary life. Meet new people, travel to new places, try new and bizarre ideas in your work, relationships, and physique – because it’s an absolute pleasure to create something entirely new.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 1900)
Our Courses
Bartender
Basics
An introduction to being behind a bar, get your feet wet in a real working Cocktail Bar. This is an interactive class where you’ll be hands on making the Cocktails and tasting them.
Fruitinis &
Martinis
We’ll learn how to make them well and create your own variations, drinks covered include: Appletini | Strawberry Martini | Lychee Martini | Pornstar Martini.
Espresso
Martinis
This is one of the most popular drinks in the world today, so much so it has its own week in London. As a working Bartender I have had nights where I’ve had to make over two hundred of these.
Iced
Teas
As a working Bartender there’s drinks, you’re going to make time and time again and Iced Teas are some of them.
Everyday
Drinks
These are drinks you’ll make week in week out and everyone has their own twist on them, let’s work towards yours, some of the drinks covered are: Cosmopolitan | Dark & Stormy | Moscow Mule | El Diablo | Old Fashioned Cocktail
Sours
Sours are the building blocks of so many classics & modern day twists today we’ll learn to balance drinks and end with you creating your own signature sour, there’s so much to learn here this should be two workshops.
The Italian
Drinks
There’s plenty of great Italian drinks us Bartenders need to know, here are the ones we’ll over in this workshop: Spritz Veneziano (Aperol Spritz) | Bellini | Negroni | Negroni Sbagliato | Pirlo | Americano | Milano Torino | Rossini | Garibaldi | Gin & It | Cardinale (The Cardinal) | Sgroppino (Sorbetto) | Moto Guzzi
Margaritas
Margaritas could keep us busy all day with their many varieties, Smoky, Frozen, Fruity, Floral and the list goes on, these are drinks you’ll lick your lips to and are timeless classics.
Daiquiris
Legends tell us Ernest Hemingway once drank fifteen frozen Daiquiris in one sitting and John F Kennedy sipped on Daiquiris whilst he beat Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. Daiquiris are one of those rare drinks drunk by customers and bartenders.
Multi Serving
Spirit & Mix
These are some of the drinks you’ll be called upon to make all the time, we’ll learn how to make them well and create your own variations, drinks covered include: Appletini | Strawberry Martini | Lychee Martini | Pornstar Martini
